Rather than giving you an overview of the language as a whole, it shows the urban Honolulu dialect circa 1985, and it's clearly written for locals as an inside joke rather than for haoles like me wanting to learn about the language. I felt this book was a mixed bag when I actually read it, however. Score! (Also, visit that bookstore if you're on Kaua'i.
I finally found a big stack of them at the Talk Story bookstore in Hanpepe on our last day. I spent the rest of the trip trying to find a bookstore on Kaua'i so that I could buy it. One of those magazines also recommended this book. While reading through tourist magazines, I learned of the existence of Hawaiian pidgin, a creole of languages developed by the different ethnicities that came to work on the 20th century sugar plantations, and I was intrigued. I took my first trip to Hawaii in April 2017.
0 kommentar(er)
